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gagestemper
Nov 15, 2020Aspirant
2.4ghz is slow, 5ghz is perfect.
Hello, recently i've been having trouble with our home internet speed. We have a 250mbps plan from Xfinity. 5ghz is perfectly fine while 2.4 is not. To try to help fix it I enabled 20/40 coexistence ...
gagestemper
Nov 15, 2020Aspirant
Sorry about my usage of the word, "just." It wasn't meant to be used in that sense. I thought there was supposed to be more than plaster and concrete in the materials in a house but of course, my mistake. I changed the channel and it did give me a somewhat substantial boost in performance. From a whole 1mb to 10, which does make streaming kind of possible. Also, I searched up a moca adapter and I was wondering, if you were to plug that into the coax in someone elses room while the router and modem is in another room, would you be able to hook a computer up to that adapter and it work?
plemans
Nov 15, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Usually you need at least 2 (unless the router has moca built in).
1 to connect to router and one to the device you want to use.